Brendan Behan: Volume I: Interviews and Recollections

Front Matter....Pages i-xv
The Golden Boy....Pages 1-1
Schooldays....Pages 2-2
Moving Outt....Pages 2-7
A Bloody Joke....Pages 7-9
Dublin Boy Goes to Borstal....Pages 9-10
The Behan I Knew Was So Gentle....Pages 10-13
In Prison....Pages 13-15
In Jail with Brendan Behan....Pages 16-20
I Knew the Real Brendan Behan....Pages 20-23
The Catacombs....Pages 23-29
To France with Brendan Behan....Pages 30-38
Brendan Behan in Paris....Pages 38-39
Brendan....Pages 39-43
Night Out in Dublin....Pages 44-52
At Kelly’s Pawn Office....Pages 52-54
‘Get the Rozzers’....Pages 55-58
The First Play....Pages 58-65
Making up my Mind....Pages 65-68
A Memorable Occasion....Pages 68-69
A Terrible Man....Pages 69-70
Borstal Boy....Pages 70-73
Ex-IRA Man Returns as Poet....Pages 73-74
The Years of Fame Had Begun....Pages 74-76
A Celebrated Interview....Pages 76-79
Drunk? Sure, I’d Had a Bottle....Pages 80-81
Brendan Behan at Lime Grove....Pages 82-83
Behanism....Pages 83-85
Fourteen-Pint Behan Switches to Milk....Pages 85-86
The Woman on the Corner of the Next Block to Us....Pages 86-88
My First Meeting with Brendan Behan....Pages 88-90
His New Play Is Loaded....Pages 90-92
Half Angel, Half Beast....Pages 92-92
Brendan Behan Fought for Franco!....Pages 93-96
Brendan Behan....Pages 96-102
Encounter with an Irish Genius....Pages 103-107
My First Visit to Dublin....Pages 108-109
Book and Author....Pages 109-111
Behan: the Last Laugh....Pages 111-118
Talk with the Author....Pages 119-120
My Husband Brendan Behan....Pages 120-122
Brendan Behan Insists on Use of Irish in Bray Court....Pages 122-125
‘The Only Thing I Blame Paris For’....Pages 125-127
A Cry....Pages 127-130
‘Success Is Damn Near Killing Me’....Pages 130-131
The Doctors Warn Behan....Pages 132-133
I Swear I’ll Beat It Yet....Pages 133-136
His London Appearances....Pages 136-141
His Tremendous Humanity....Pages 142-142
Meet the Quare Fella....Pages 142-148
But Not in the Pejorative Sense....Pages 149-152
Meet the New Brendan Behan....Pages 152-155